University Of California Press: 1479 books
Hard Work
Remaking the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political...
Abusive Endings
Separation and Divorce Violence against Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Abusive Endings offers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women today—abuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
This pioneering encyclopedia illuminates a topic at the forefront of global ecology—biological invasions, or organisms that come to live in the wrong place. Written by leading scientists from around the world, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions addresses all aspects of this subject at a global...
by David Healy
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This searing indictment, David Healy’s most comprehensive and forceful argument against the pharmaceuticalization of medicine, tackles problems in health care that are leading to a growing number of deaths and disabilities. Healy, who was the first to draw attention to the now well-publicized suicide-inducing...
A Passion for Society
How We Think about Human Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
What does human suffering mean for society? And how has this meaning changed from the past to the present? In what ways does “the problem of suffering” serve to inspire us to care for others? How does our response to suffering reveal our moral and social conditions? In this trenchant work,...
To Overcome Oneself
The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
To Overcome Oneself offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a self was enmeshed in early modern Catholic missionary expansion. Examining the practices of Catholics in Europe and New Spain from the 1520s through...
by Andrew Greeley
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2000
Catholics live in an enchanted world: a world of statues and holy water, stained glass and votive candles, saints and religious medals, rosary beads and holy pictures. But these Catholic paraphernalia are merely hints of a deeper and more pervasive religious sensibility that inclines Catholics to...
Forced Baptisms
Histories of Jews, Christians, and Converts in Papal Rome
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book makes use of newly available archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Church’s policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of coercing the Jews of Rome into converting to Christianity. Marina Caffiero, one of the first historians permitted access to important archives, sets...
Fighting Words
Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
One of the critical issues in interreligious relations today is the connection, both actual and perceived, between sacred sources and the justification of violent acts as divinely mandated. Fighting Words makes solid text-based scholarship accessible to the general public, beginning with the premise...
Judaisms
A Twenty-First-Century Introduction to Jews and Jewish Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? Exploring the multifaceted and intensely complicated characteristics of this age-old, ever-changing community, Judaisms examines how Jews are a culture, ethnicity, nation, nationality, race, religion, and more. With each chapter revolving...
Straight to Jesus
Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Every year, hundreds of gay men and lesbians join ex-gay ministries in an attempt to convert to non-homosexual Christian lives. In this fascinating study of the transnational ex-gay movement, Tanya Erzen focuses on the everyday lives of men and women at New Hope Ministry, a residential ex-gay program,...
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III
Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
To Be Cared For
The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (“untouchables”) in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological...
Orthodox by Design
Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Orthodox by Design, a groundbreaking exploration of religion and media, examines ArtScroll, the world’s largest Orthodox Jewish publishing house, purveyor of handsomely designed editions of sacred texts and a major cultural force in contemporary Jewish public life. In the first in-depth study of...